Iran rejected a ceasefire proposal amid the ongoing war in West Asia, instead presenting a 10-point plan to end the conflict with the United States and Israel, according to Iranian state media.
“In this response, set out in ten points, Iran has rejected the ceasefire and insists on the need for a definitive end to the conflict,” Iran’s official Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) said.
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The refusal was communicated by Pakistan, which acted as the primary mediator in the war, ahead of President Donald Trump’s Tuesday deadline (US time) to include all power plants and bridges as his ultimatum to strike a deal.
“The whole country could be wiped out in one night, and that night could be tomorrow,” Trump said. He suggested his deadline of 8:00 PM ET (5:30 AM, April 8 (IST) on Tuesday) would be final. President Trump said he had already given Iran enough extensions.
Previously, these deadlines were issued on March 21 (48 hours), March 23 (postponed by 5 days), March 26 (postponed by 10 days) and April 4 (48 hours).
The US has told Iran to open the key Strait of Hormuz to all shipping or see power plants and bridges destroyed, prompting warnings of possible war crimes.
Iran no longer trusts the Trump administration
In response, Tehran communicated its own 10-point plan to end the fighting through Pakistan, a key mediator, Iran’s state news agency IRNA reported.
“We accept the end of the war only with guarantees that we will not be attacked again,” Mojtaba Ferdousi Pour, head of Iran’s diplomatic mission in Cairo, told AP. Ferdousi said Iran no longer trusts the Trump administration after the US bombed the Islamic Republic twice during previous rounds of talks.
Two senior Iranian officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive negotiations, told the NYT that the 10-point proposal includes guarantees that Iran will not be attacked again, an end to Israeli strikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon and the lifting of all sanctions.
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In return, Iran would lift its de facto blockade of the key shipping route through the Strait of Hormuz. Iran would also impose a fee of about $2 million per ship, which would be split with Oman, which lies across the strait, the Times reported.
“Iran would, under the plan, use its share of the proceeds to reconstruct infrastructure destroyed by US and Israeli strikes, rather than demand direct compensation,” it said.
What’s Inside Iran’s Ten-Point Response?
The response includes demands for an end to all conflicts in the region, a protocol governing safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz, the lifting of sanctions and a commitment to reconstruction, IRNA said.
IRNA claimed that the text was submitted in light of recent developments in the western and central regions of Iran and the unsuccessful outcome of the US heliborne operation, with US President Donald Trump once again extending the earlier deadline and revising earlier threats.
Egyptian, Pakistani and Turkish mediators sent Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff a proposal calling for a ceasefire and reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, two Middle East officials told The Associated Press.
State media did not publish the full proposal, but said it included a protocol for safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz. He also outlined Iran’s demands for the lifting of sanctions, the reconstruction of damaged infrastructure and an end to regional hostilities, the New York Times reported.
15-point draft USA
On March 24, the US sent its own 15-point proposal to end the war with Iran to Pakistan for delivery to Tehran. Iran rejected this and sent a list of counter-proposals, some of which it repeated in the proposal on Monday. Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei told a press conference on Monday that the earlier U.S. proposal brokered by mediators was “extremely exaggerated, unusual and illogical.”
It has been six weeks since the war in West Asia began with joint US-Israeli attacks on Iran. Tensions escalated following the killing of Iran’s 86-year-old Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in military strikes on February 28.
In retaliation, Iran targeted Israeli and US assets in several Gulf countries, causing further disruption to the waterway and affecting international energy markets as well as global economic stability and disrupting trade routes through the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran’s 10-point plan based on Iranian media
1- Guarantee that Iran will not be attacked again.
2-A permanent end to the war, not just a ceasefire.
3- Ending Israeli strikes in Lebanon.
4- Removal of all US sanctions against Iran.
5- Ending all regional fighting against Iran’s allies.
6- In return, Iran would open the Strait of Hormuz.
7- Iran would impose a Hormuz fee of $2 million per ship.
8- Iran would split these fees with Oman.
9- Iran will provide rules for safe passage through Hormuz.
10- Iran will use Hormuz fees for reconstruction instead of reparations.
We accept the end of the war only with assurances that we will not be attacked again.
The fighting has left thousands dead, most of them in Iran and Lebanon, and has nearly halted shipping through Hormuz – which normally carries about a fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas exports.
More than 1,900 people have been killed in Iran since the war began, but the government has not updated the number of days, news agencies said. More than 1,400 people were killed and more than 1 million people were displaced in Lebanon. Eleven Israeli soldiers died there.
More than two dozen people died in the Arab states of the Persian Gulf and the West Bank, while 23 were reported dead in Israel and 13 US service members were killed.
